Genocide, State Crime, and the Law - In the Name of the State

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Balint is Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences! University of Melbourne! Australia. Her research interests lie primarily in the area of access to justice and the constitutive role of law! with a focus on genocide and other forms of state crime. Klappentext 'Genocide! State Crime and the Law' argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural! political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. Zusammenfassung Genocide, State Crime and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Conceptualizing Genocide and State Crime; Chapter Two: The Toleration of Harm: Law and Perpetration; Chapter Three: Cutting off the Old! Envisaging the New: Law and Redress; Chapter Four: Accountability and Responsibility: Addressing the State and Institutions; Chapter Five: Bringing Us All Together: Law! Reconstruction and Reconciliation; Chapter Six: Law and the Constitution of State Crime and Genocide

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Balint, Jennifer (University of Melbourne Balint, Balint Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780415543811
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54381-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Law & society, Criminal law: offences against the person, Offences against the person, Law and society, sociology of law